Audience Awards Winner — Feature Film The Ugly Stepsister Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Cast: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger Norway, 2024 In this warped, sinister spin on a Cinderella story, the lens…
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Overlook Film Fest 2025: Audience and Jury Awards for the Largest Ever Overlook Film Fest – Part 1
The Overlook Film Festival is a 4-day celebration of all things horror held in haunted, historic & iconic venues throughout New Orleans. Presenting superior film programming with an expanded focus on experiential events, the festival showcases exciting work in new and classic horror cinema alongside the latest in interactive and live shows for a fully immersive weekend. As a summer camp for horror genre fans, The Overlook is a community event bringing the best of horror storytelling to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience within an intimate and inspirational environment. – Article by the WORD staff.
Bernie Sanders & AOC – Fight the Oligarchs: “… Largest Rally We Ever Had”
“When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday (Saturday April 12, 2025) and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended — it is the largest rally we have ever had.
And when I see the record crowds like the ones we had yesterday, or the ones in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, I believe it may just be possible that this country is on the brink of the political revolution we have been talking about for a long time.
These people are not showing up because I am running for something. There is no presidential campaign happening.
These are people attending in huge numbers who are not just saying NO to oligarchy, but they are saying YES to raising the minimum wage, YES to expanding Social Security, YES to guaranteeing health care as a human right, YES, to cutting the cost of prescription drugs, YES to paid family and medical leave, YES to equal pay for equal work, YES to more affordable housing, YES to making childcare and higher education affordable to all, YES to taking on the existential threat of climate change.
And most importantly they are saying YES to a government and an economy that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class and the Oligarchs.
Later today, we will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tomorrow we go to Boise, Idaho before returning to California on Tuesday for two rallies in districts held by Republicans and ending this leg of the tour in Missoula, Montana on Wednesday.
We will be streaming each rally on YouTube and Twitter, and I hope you will tune in to watch and share the links with your friends.
the WORD Editor Gregg W. Morris
“The largest rally I have ever held” – Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders – Word for Word by the WORD
We just finished up a truly remarkable few days on the road. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I held five rallies in three states in three days. And the response was incredible. North Las Vegas, Nevada We began in Las Vegas…
Considering the Tumultuous Happenings in the City, State, Country and the World this Academic Year, Was This a Madcap Semester for Students?WORD Reporter Tony Ayala Dared to Ask
Students interviewed for this article were asked to describe the pressing issues they were facing this semester. One, Chen Pan, 22, a sophomore who hasn’t declared a major yet, described what he said was an unhinged professor who locked him…
A Whopping Poetic Slam Dunk:
I AM READY, WARDEN. By Smriti Mundhra, Director of This Oscar® Nominated Best Documentary Short Film (2025)
John Henry Ramirez Deathbed Post Mortem Eulogy. All right, let’s see. Y’all can still hear me right? Y’all can still hear me? All right. If y’all are seeing this, then obviously the State of Texas has murdered me. I’m sorry that y’all had to go through that. Thank you for everything. It’s been rough, but it’s been good having y’all with me, all y’all that stuck with me. – Excerpts of John Henry Ramirez’s eulogy about his execution. Article, review by Gregg W. Morris
Queens Community Board 2, February 21, 2024 Meeting
Sunnyside – Woodside – Long Island City 43-22 50th Street, Suite 2B Woodside, New York 11377 Community Board 2 is one of 59 community boards throughout New York CIty; it is composed of 50 volunteer members appointed by the…
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Versus Rutgers University
One of the reasons I’m publishing this press info from OCR is because subject manner resonates in ways that reflects what’s happening at Hunter College of City University of New York where I am a tenured assistant journalism professor. I…
Best Big Screeners (Movies, Films) of 2024 According to Film & Movie Pundits Recognized, Unrecognized, Self-Appointed … and So on!
The 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Broadcast live on ABC and Hulu, and in more than 200 territories worldwide. A red carpet show will air live at 6:30 p.j. ET/3:30 p.m.,PT, and ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. – Gregg W. Morris, Editor
Students Need to Be Aware of a Never Ending Scourge: Phishing – Article by Tony Ayala
Phishing, a pox ever there was one. Hunter’s Internet Computer Instructional Information (ICIT) early in the semester that has recently ended, notified the campus of the digital menace: “We are currently witnessing an uptick in the number of phishing incidents asking staff and students to validate accounts, and share personal information. We hope that all staff and students will review this information and the awareness courses recommended in last weeks emails.”
Stay alert,” according to the warning, “for unexpected messages requesting personal information. Refrain from sharing personal or sensitive information like bank account numbers, social security numbers, or student IDs, with unfamiliar sources.” – Article by Tony Ayala.